Chapter 01 — Today in music
On a day like today June 22
1936
Kris Kristofferson is born, the Oxford scholar who swept floors in Nashville
On June 22, 1936, Kris Kristofferson was born in Texas — a Rhodes scholar at Oxford and helicopter pilot who gave it all up to sweep floors in Nashville studios. Out of that came 'Me and Bobby McGee' and 'Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down', songs that gave country a new literary depth. Songwriter, actor and rebel: a biography that reads like a novel.
Kris Kristofferson
1948
Todd Rundgren is born, the one-man band who produced the future
On June 22, 1948, Todd Rundgren was born in Philadelphia — capable of recording entire albums playing everything, like the classic 'Something/Anything?'. As a producer he signed everything from Meat Loaf's 'Bat Out of Hell' to records by XTC and the New York Dolls, and was an obsessive pioneer of video and interactive music. A chronic visionary the mass audience always reached too late.
Todd Rundgren
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